Re: Unix programmers: vi or pico?
 

Emacs.

What other editor has a built-in therapist? ;)

Re: Unix programmers: vi or pico?
 

i have been confused about this for awhile now but is C the only thing you can program robots with?

can you use Java?

i have some videos about unix. i havent gotten around to watching them yet.

is it worth it to learn it?

i kind of want to so our team has more than one programmer.(although right now i am the mechanical team leader, t-shirt and button designer, meeting scheduler, pit crew person, and mainly anything that need to be done. yeah we have a team of about 4-5 productive people, 2 mentors, and a school liason who basically manages the money and alerts us about oppourtunities.)

i think i would really like to learn to program
what do you suggest?

Re: Unix programmers: vi or pico?
 

By editor, you mean operating system?

Re: Unix programmers: vi or pico?
 

vi and pico are intended for completely different things. Pico is really meant to be as easy as possible for people who aren't that comfortable with computers/command line interface (i.e. pine, etc.) vi (and emacs, if you're in that camp) are so much more powerful than pico/nano it's like comparing a moped to a F1 car. It might be a pain at first, but it's worth knowing how to use it. Having a search facility that can handle regular expressions and a decent macro recording capability are hard to give up once you know how to use them. vi has been a part of every Unix/Unix clone for pretty much forever.

The command line interface is FAR from dead...it just depends on what you are doing. I find it hard to believe anyone gets very far as a programmer/computer engineer without knowing how to do basic tasks with a CLI.

Personally, I use TextMate (a nice GUI editor for OS X) and vi. Both have their merits. I use vim for something almost every day.